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"It’s been 10 years since the celebrated teen comedy
Easy A was
released in cinemas. A knowing riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s seminal
19th-Century novel
The Scarlet Letter, it translated its tragic tale
of public shaming into an incongruously peppy 21st-Century high school
comedy, with Emma Stone as Olive, a teen who, like Hawthorne’s Hester
Prynne, finds herself branded a harlot by her intolerant peers – but
unlike Prynne, decides to lean into the persona.
The film marked the beginning of Stone’s career as a leading lady, was a
box office hit, earning nine times its budget back, and received
widespread critical acclaim. Which makes it all the stranger that it
marked the end of the line for a very specific genre of films that
flourished in Hollywood during the 1990s and Noughties: the literary
classic adaptation set in high school."
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "This is a cool article. Not a fluffy
listicle."
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